Tag: Lang’s World
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Lang’s World: An Expert’s Tips For Working from Home
Working from home sounds like a breeze. Wait, I can do my job and don’t have to leave my house? Let’s go! In actuality, WFH can easily be more like WTH. I’ve been there: I’d spent over a decade at the same job, working out of the same office, and eventually I got to the…
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Lang’s World: A Quarantine Viewing Guide
I should start by telling you that I have no idea what to tell you. I’m guessing most of you right now are as flummoxed by the state of the world as I am, with COVID-19 running through the land as wild as Hulkamania was back in the ‘80s. There’s no sports. I can’t go…
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Grizz Gaming: Next Up?
We huddled around the table as the clock ticked 10 minutes down to zero, letting us know that the break leading into the third round was almost up. And we weren’t sure exactly what we were going to be able to do. Was our draft plan going to actually work? Would we have to call…
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Lang’s World: My Presidential Platform
All of this varied life experience leads me to believe that one day I will reach the point in my career where I have nothing left to do except run for President. To be clear, I DO NOT want to run for president, but at this rate, eventually that’s all I’m going to have left.…
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Lang’s World: Kobe proved hard work pays off
“Gone” is a hard word to reckon with, but it’s even harder to square when you’re talking about an immortal. That’s what Kobe Bryant felt like; we were only used to seeing him win. Kobe repeatedly showed the world what it meant to confront doubt with work, and to turn that labor into success. Kobe…
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Lang’s World: To win in college football, be ready to embrace change
In Monday night’s NCAA Football Championship Game in New Orleans, which may or may not still be going on as I type this, the LSU Tigers tamed the Clemson Tigers in convincing fashion, 42-25. If you watched much college football this season, it wasn’t a huge surprise. LSU was dominant from start to finish, and…
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Lang’s World: A farewell to David Stern, who helped flatten the world
These days, it’s not crazy to say that the world is flat. Not literally, of course, but thanks to technology and travel advances, everything is within reach. And I’ve always felt like there’s no better way to understand how the world works than to actually see the world work from up close. This is a…
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Lang’s World: The Memphis before Christmas
‘Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the MidSouth Not a creature was stirring, not even an NCAA compliance mouse; The Foamposites were hung by the chimney with care, In hopes that a new five-star recruit soon would be there; The Tigers were nestled all snug in their beds; With visions of March and…
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Lang’s World: These Are A Few Of My Favorite Things
I can’t speak for you, but raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens are not a few of my favorite things. While I appreciate the sentiment of that song we hear each holiday season — stopping to recognize the things that make each day a little better — the stuff that makes us not feel…
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Lang’s World: Who replaces Mike Norvell? Depends which type of coach the Memphis Tigers want
You don’t need me to tell you that Mike Norvell did an incredible job as football coach at the University of Memphis. He won more than twice as many games as he lost, he went to bowl games in each of his four seasons, he recruited the heck out of the region, and this year…